{"id":91204,"date":"2019-05-23T05:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T12:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/robots-activated"},"modified":"2019-05-26T00:33:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T07:33:17","slug":"robots-activated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/robots-activated","title":{"rendered":"Robots activated by water may be the next frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robots-activated.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from the laboratory of Ozgur Sahin, associate professor of biological sciences and physics at Columbia University, shows that materials can be fabricated to create soft actuators\u2014devices that convert energy into physical motion\u2014that are strong and flexible, and, most important, resistant to water damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a growing trend of making anything we interact with and touch from materials that are dynamic and responsive to the environment,\u201d Sahin says. \u201cWe found a way to develop a material that is water-resistant yet, at the same time, equipped to harness water to deliver the force and motion needed to actuate <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/mechanical+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mechanical systems<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The research was published online May 21 in Advanced Materials Technologies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-robots-frontier.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-robots-frontier.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-robots-frontier.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from the laboratory of Ozgur Sahin, associate professor of biological sciences and physics at Columbia University, shows that materials can be fabricated to create soft actuators\u2014devices that convert energy into physical motion\u2014that are strong and flexible, and, most important, resistant to water damage. \u201cThere\u2019s a growing trend of making anything we interact with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91301,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91204\/revisions\/91301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}